107th Ohio General Assembly

The One Hundred Seventh Ohio General Assembly was the legislative body of the state of Ohio in 1967 and 1968. In this General Assembly, both the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives were controlled by the Republican Party. In the Senate, there were 23 Republicans and 10 Democrats. In the House, there were 61 Republicans and 38 Democrats. It was the first General Assembly to take effect after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 required population proportioned districts. The seats were apportioned in 1966.

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Ohio Senate
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The Ohio Senate is the upper house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U. S. state of Ohio. The State Senate, which meets in the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered every two years such that half of the seats are contested at each election. Even numbered seats and odd numbered seats are contested in separate election years, the President of the Ohio Senate presides over the body when in session, and is currently Larry Obhof. Currently, the Senate consists of 24 Republicans and 9 Democrats, each Senator represents approximately 349,000 Ohioans, and each Senate District encompasses three corresponding Ohio House of Representatives Districts. The Clerk is also responsible for handling all documents received from government departments

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Ohio House of Representatives
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The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U. S. state of Ohio, the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in Chillicothe on March 3,1803, in 1816, the capital was moved to Columbus, where it is located today. The 132nd General Assembly convened in January 2017, members are limited to four consecutive two-year elected terms. Time served by appointment to fill out another representatives uncompleted term does not count against the term limit, there are 99 members in the house, elected from single-member districts. Every even-numbered year, all the seats are up for re-election, the 102nd and current Speaker is Cliff Rosenberger, a Republican from Wilmington, Ohio. The Clerk of the House of Representatives is in charge of, the Clerk is the custodian of legislative documents within the House. The Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives is tasked with maintaining security, the Sergeant-at-arms may be ordered by the Speaker to clear the aisles if this is deemed necessary by the Speaker. The Speaker of the House is in charge of naming all committees and subcommittees

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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition, nevertheless, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers

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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president

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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6,1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. According to the U. S. Department of Justice, the Act is considered to be the most effective piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the country. The Act contains numerous provisions that regulate election administration, the Acts general provisions provide nationwide protections for voting rights. Section 2 is a provision that prohibits every state and local government from imposing any voting law that results in discrimination against racial or language minorities. Other general provisions specifically outlaw literacy tests and similar devices that were used to disenfranchise racial minorities. The Act also contains provisions that apply to only certain jurisdictions. Another special provision requires jurisdictions containing significant language minority populations to provide bilingual ballots, Section 5 and most other special provisions apply to jurisdictions encompassed by the coverage formula prescribed in Section 4. The coverage formula was designed to encompass jurisdictions that engaged in egregious voting discrimination in 1965. In Shelby County v. Holder, the U. S. Supreme Court struck down the formula as unconstitutional. The Court did not strike down Section 5, but without a coverage formula, as initially ratified, the United States Constitution granted each state complete discretion to determine voter qualifications for its residents. After the Civil War, the three Reconstruction Amendments were ratified and limited this discretion and these Amendments also empower Congress to enforce their provisions through appropriate legislation. To enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, Congress passed the Enforcement Acts in the 1870s, the Acts criminalized the obstruction of a citizens voting rights and provided for federal supervision of the electoral process, including voter registration. However, in 1875 the Supreme Court struck down parts of the legislation as unconstitutional in United States v. Cruikshank, after the Reconstruction Era ended in 1877, enforcement of these laws became erratic, and in 1894, Congress repealed most of their provisions. Southern states generally sought to disenfranchise racial minorities during and after Reconstruction, from 1868 to 1888, electoral fraud and violence throughout the South suppressed the African-American vote. During this period, the Supreme Court generally upheld efforts to discriminate against racial minorities, in Giles v. Harris, the Court held that irrespective of the Fifteenth Amendment, the judiciary did not have the remedial power to force states to register racial minorities to vote. In the 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement increased pressure on the government to protect the voting rights of racial minorities. In 1957, Congress passed the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, although these acts helped empower courts to remedy violations of federal voting rights, strict legal standards made it difficult for the Department of Justice to successfully pursue litigation

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John William Brown
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John William Brown was a Republican politician from Ohio. He briefly served as the 58th Governor of Ohio from January 3,1957 to January 14,1957 and served as the 51st, Brown also served as mayor of Medina, in the Ohio House, and in the Ohio Senate. John W. Brown is Ohios longest serving lieutenant governor, having served three different governors from 1953 to 1957 and 1963 to 1975. In 1952, he unseated the incumbent lieutenant governor, Democrat George D. Nye, Brown defeated Nye again in 1954 to win a second two-year term. In 1956, instead of seeking another term as lieutenant governor, Brown lost badly in the primary, getting only 27. 5% of the vote to ONeills 72. 5%. Brown, thus, was elevated to the office of governor, into the breach stepped the outgoing lieutenant governor. Brown took his eleven-day-long governorship very seriously, among papers was a letter, on gubernatorial letter-head, to Columbus mayor M. E. Sensenbrenner, asking him to take care of a parking ticket. There was also a letter to then-President Eisenhower asking for a job after his eleven days in the governors office were complete. In 1958, Brown was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives and he won election to the lieutenant governorship again in 1962, and served another three terms, from 1963 to 1975. In 1974, Brown lost his bid for another term to Richard F. Celeste, after serving as lieutenant governor, Brown worked to reactivate, and became the first commandant of, the Ohio Naval Militia. Brown Arena at the Ohio Expo Center and State Fair in Columbus, Usher, Brian, Lamis, Alexander P. Usher, Brian, eds

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Michael Maloney
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Michael Maloney is an English actor. Born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Maloneys first television appearance was as Peter Barkworths teenage son in the 1979 drama series, Telfords Change. In the early 1990s, he starred on television in Mr Wakefields Crusade, and on film as Mark in Truly, Madly, Deeply, and in 1994 he took the lead in the BBC adaptation of Love on a Branch Line. He appeared in both the 1990 and 1996 film versions of Hamlet, as Rosencrantz and Laertes respectively, in addition to his TV appearances, he starred as Jason Fields in the film American Reel in 1999. 2002 saw him play Brian Albumen, personal aide to Rik Mayalls Adonis Cnut character in the Gran, in 2003, he appeared as the Belgian Prosper Profond in The Forsyte Saga. He also played Cassius in the 2005 miniseries Empire, John Major in 2009s Margaret and he is also active in radio drama on BBC Radio 4, playing the Dean in both series of High Table, Lower Orders and Giles the gossip columnist in His Masters Voice. He has also made a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series Baldi and he has also appeared in a Bollywood film, I See You, playing a policeman. In 2013, he portrayed Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort, in 2016, he appeared in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid. He voiced the Lost Soul in the 2013 video game Castlevania, Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate and Avallach in the 2015 video game The Witcher 3, bran in Earthsearch II, James Folletts 1982 new adventure serial in time and space on BBC Radio 4. Michael Maloney at the Internet Movie Database

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Tennyson Guyer
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Tennyson Guyer was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican from Ohio, born in Findlay, Ohio, Guyer was educated in the public schools of Findlay, and performed at a young age with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. He received a B. S. from Findlay College in 1934, Guyer served as mayor of Celina, Ohio, from 1940 to 1944, and later became a member of the state central committee from 1954 to 1966. Guyer was the public affairs director for Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in Findlay from 1950 to 1972 and he was also a delegate to the Ohio State Republican conventions each year from 1950 to 1957, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1956. While serving as Congressman in 1979, he led the Cocaine Task Force, biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Walter E. Powell
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Walter Eugene Powell was an American politician of the Republican party who served as a U. S. representative from Ohio from 1971 to 1975. Powell began his career as the city clerk of Fairfield, Ohio in 1956, in 1960, Powell successfully ran for the Ohio House of Representatives. He was reelected in 1962, and 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided Powell with incentive to run for the Ohio Senate, which he did. He ended up winning, and took a seat in the chamber on January 3,1967. While he was up for reelection to the Senate in 1970, however, he eventually entered the race a seat in the United States House of Representatives. He went on to win the seat, and ultimately swapped seats with his predecessor, Buz Lukens, Powell went on to serve two terms in Congress, and opted to retire after his second term ended in 1975, and was succeeded by Tom Kindness. Following his tenure in Congress, he retired to Middletown, Ohio, representative from Ohio, 24th District Election Results, U. S. Representative from Ohio, 8th District List of United States Representatives from Ohio United States Congress, biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Paul Gillmor
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Paul Eugene Gillmor was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U. S. Representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007, Gillmor was born in Tiffin, Ohio and grew up in Old Fort, his father owned a trucking business in the area. His mother was Lucy Fry Gillmor and he attended Old Fort High School, graduating in 1957. In 1961 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1964, he graduated with a law degree from the University of Michigan. From 1965 to 1966, Gillmor was on duty in the U. S. Air Force as a Judge Advocate. He then entered the practice of law, Paul Gillmor married Brenda Lee Luckey, daughter of Helen and Lee Luckey of Fostoria, Ohio. They had two children, Linda and Julie, Gillmors wife Brenda was killed in a car accident in Fremont, Ohio in September 1972. Daughters Linda and Julie, ages 7 and 5 at the time, were in the car, Gillmor married Karen Lako, who also served in the Ohio Senate, in 1983. Gillmor had three sons with his wife Karen, Paul Michael and twins Adam and Connor, Gillmor was elected as an Ohio state senator in 1967, where he remained until being elected to Congress in 1988. He was the Republican Leader from 1978 to 1980 and from 1983 to 1984 and he ran in the 1986 Republican primary for governor, but lost to former governor James A. Rhodes. In 1988, Gillmor entered the Republican primary for the 5th District after 30-year incumbent Del Latta retired, Latta endorsed his son, Bob, as his successor, Gillmor defeated him by only 27 votes. He was then elected in November and was reelected nine times in this heavily Republican district. In 2002, Gillmor defeated Republican Rex Damschroder in the primary, until March 2006, when he bought a condominium in Tiffin for $230,000, Gillmor claimed his boyhood home in Old Fort as his official residence. Both were within the 5th district, however, he spent most of his time in Dublin, a suburb of Columbus. Gillmors wife worked in Columbus as vice chairman of the State Employment Relations Board, prior to being appointed to that position, when asked prior to the November 2006 election how often he stayed at the Tiffin house, Gillmor refused to answer. Gilmors opponents in the last three election cycles prior to his death made an issue of his residence, and many of the residents claimed they rarely saw him there. Members of the House are constitutionally required to only in the state they represent. However, Gillmor long insisted that Seneca County was his true home, in March 2007, Gillmor and his family moved into a new house in Dublin

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John W. Bowen
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John Wesley Edward Bowen III was a Republican politician who, in 1966 became the first African American elected to the Ohio Senate from Franklin County. John W. E. Bowen III was born on October 4,1926 in Jackson, Mississippi, Bowen, Jr. and Margaret Davis Bowen. He is the grandson of John W. E. Bowen, Sr. former President of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen and he attended elementary schools in Cincinnati, Ohio and New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from Gilbert Academy High School, of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1943. He attended Lincoln University, in Oxford, Pennsylvania, for two years, where he was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and he received an honorable discharge in 1946 and resumed his academic studies for two years at the University of Southern California. While attending U. S. C. he was a member of the 1947-48 and 1948-49 Track and Field Teams where he was coached by Dean Cromwell, after leaving the office of the City Attorney, he engaged in the full-time private law practice for over 50 years. Bowen initially ran for the Ohio Senate in 1966, following the Voting Rights Act of 1965, opposed by Jerry OShaughnessy, Bowen ultimately won the race by only 240 votes. With his victory, he was the first African American elected as a legislator from Franklin County and he was a member of the Ohio Senate, serving in the 107th and 108th General Assemblies from 1967 through 1970. During his four years in the senate, more that 17 bills he introduced became law in the areas of insurance, child day care, housing, credit unions, commercial law and his tiebreaking vote in committee gave Ohio permanent daylight saving time. In 1970, Bowen was up for reelection, and OShaughnessy opted for a rematch, however, this time, Bowen was defeated, limiting his time as a legislator to one term, or four years. The John W. E. Bowen III Memorial Roadway in Columbus,13 Candidates Seek 6 Ohio Senate Nominations in Franklin Co. Districts in May 3 Elections, Columbus Dispatch, May 1,1966, Bowen Still the Winner, Columbus Dispatch, December 2,1966, page 11A FR CO Legislator John W. E. Bowen, To Submit Bill Requiring Compulsory Liability Insurance For All Ohio Motorists, Columbus, Dispatch, January 5,1967, page 1A State Sen. E

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Robert Shaw (Ohio)
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Robert Ross Shaw, Jr. was a prominent lawyer in Columbus, Ohio, and a member of the Ohio Senate from 1967 to 1972. He served the 16th Senate District, which encompasses most of the portion of Franklin County. Senator Shaw was born on December 5,1904, the first son of Robert Ross Shaw, Sr. and he graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1929. Upon opening his private practice, he married Elsie Melvilla Murray, also of Columbus, in St. Marys. Among his duties during his tenure in the legislature, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. In 1972, Senator Shaw was instrumental in the introduction and passage of Senate Bill SB176 and he retired from the Senate later that year, following the death of his wife, Elsie, and was succeeded by Donald L. Woodland. During his subsequent retirement, he married his sweetheart, Mabel Damsel. Senator Shaw died in Columbus on March 27,1985, and was buried in Union Cemetery

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Tom V. Moorehead
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Tom Van Horn Moorehead was a Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Moorehead was born in Zanesville, Ohio and he attended the public schools, Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and George Washington University at Washington, D. C. During the First World War, he served in United States Naval Aviation Corps and he was engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Zanesville, and served as a member of city council and mayor of Zanesville. He was a member of the Ohio Senate serving eight terms, Moorehead was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress. He was a candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress. He resided in Zanesville, where he died October 21,1979, biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Ralph Regula
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Ralph Straus Regula was the United States Representative for Ohios 16th congressional district from 1973 to 2009. He retired in January 2009 after 18 consecutive terms and he is a member of the Republican Party. In the 110th Congress, he was the second longest serving Republican member of the House of Representatives, Regula was ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor, Health, Human Services and Education funding in the 110th Congress. The subcommittees budget, the largest discretionary domestic account, was over $140 billion, Regula also increased by millions of dollars the amount of federal money committed to research in fighting cancer, heart disease and birth defects. Regula was a member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership, Regula was also a Congressional leader in alternative energy sources. He was a champion of fuel cell technology and he has directed federal funding back to his home state, Ohio. Additionally, Regula was a proponent of clean coal, such utilization would help reduce home energy costs and free up the demand for natural gas. The name was changed in 2015. Regula described the change as a stunt by President Obama. Regula, a country lawyer, U. S. Navy veteran. Previously he had served on the Ohio Board of Education and in the Ohio House, an alumnus of Mount Union College, he is married to Mary whom he met there, and they have three children and four grandchildren. Rep. Regula retired from the House of Representatives when his term ended in January 2009 and he was succeeded by John Boccieri, a Democrat from the Ohio General Assembly

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Charles J. Carney
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Charles Joseph Carney was a U. S. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Carney attended schools in Youngstown and neighboring Campbell and he later attended Youngstown State University. Carney was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1950 to 1970, prior to his involvement in public service, Carney was involved with Youngstown-area labor organizations. He served as a member of the vice-president, and president. He served as representative of United Steelworkers of America from 1950 to 1968. Carney also served as vice-president of the Mahoning County CIO Industrial Council, kirwan, and reelected to the four succeeding Congresses, from. He was a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978. Charles Joseph Carney died on October 7,1987, in Youngstown and he was interred in Calvary Cemetery. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Corwin M. Nixon
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Corwin M. Nixon was an American politician. Born one mile south of Red Lion, Ohio, Nixon was best known as an Ohio politician from Lebanon, Ohio. He served as Warren County Commissioner from 1950–1962, and was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1962. Nixon rose to Minority Leader of the Republican Party in the Ohio House, much of Corwins status stemmed from his close relationship to Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe. In 1988, Riffe was quoted by the Cincinnati Enquirer as saying, Corwin is how I look at a brother I never had. Nixon also had a passion for Standardbred horse racing and he was manager and part owner of Lebanon Raceway in Lebanon, Ohio, a breeder, trainer and driver. He was inducted into the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame in Goshen, in 1992, and the Little Brown Jug Wall of Fame in 1994. He also served as President of the United States Trotting Association, Ohio Harness Racing Hall of Fame. Honorary Doctor of Law, Ohio University, Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame,1980. Corwin M. Nixon Aviation Facility, Great Oaks Joint Vocational School,1986, Corwin M. Nixon Covered Bridge, Waynesville, Ohio,1982. Corwin M. Nixon Park, Mason, Ohio, Corwin M. Nixon Bridge, Franklin, Ohio. Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center, Miami University, Oxford, board of Trustees Bethesda Hospital and Grandview Hospitals, Corwin M. Nixon Health Center, Lebanon, Ohio October 30,2008. Corwin M. Nixon Community Health Center, Dayton, Ohio, Ohio University Phillips Award, for his role in establishing the Ohio University School of Osteopathic Medicine

Ohio Senate
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The Ohio Senate is the upper house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U. S. state of Ohio. The State Senate, which meets in the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered every two years such that half of the seats are contested at each election. Even numbered seats and odd numbered seat

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Ohio Senate

Ohio House of Representatives
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The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U. S. state of Ohio, the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in Chillicothe on March 3,1803, in 1816, the capital was moved to Columbus, where it is located today. The 132

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Ohio House of Representatives

Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party

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Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U.S. President (1861–1865).

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Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (1901–1909)

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Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (1953–1961)

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Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (1969–1974)

Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democrati

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Andrew Jackson was the first Democratic President of the United States

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The three leaders of the Democratic party during the first half of the 20th century: President Woodrow Wilson (nominated in 1912 and '16) Sec. of State William J. Bryan (nominated in 1896, 1900 and 1908), Josephus Daniels, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt (nominated for VP in 1920 and for president in 1932, 36,'40 and 44)

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John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)

Voting Rights Act of 1965
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6,1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. According to the

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Alabama police in 1965 attack voting rights marchers participating in the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches, which became known as "Bloody Sunday"

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965

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President George W. Bush signs amendments to the Act in July 2006

John William Brown
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John William Brown was a Republican politician from Ohio. He briefly served as the 58th Governor of Ohio from January 3,1957 to January 14,1957 and served as the 51st, Brown also served as mayor of Medina, in the Ohio House, and in the Ohio Senate. John W. Brown is Ohios longest serving lieutenant governor, having served three different governors f

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John William Brown speaking in 1979

Michael Maloney
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Michael Maloney is an English actor. Born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Maloneys first television appearance was as Peter Barkworths teenage son in the 1979 drama series, Telfords Change. In the early 1990s, he starred on television in Mr Wakefields Crusade, and on film as Mark in Truly, Madly, Deeply, and in 1994 he took the lead in the BBC adapta

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Maloney at the 2011 Minghella Film Festival

Tennyson Guyer
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Tennyson Guyer was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican from Ohio, born in Findlay, Ohio, Guyer was educated in the public schools of Findlay, and performed at a young age with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. He received a B. S. from Findlay College in 1934, Guyer served as mayor of Celina, Ohio, from 1940 to 19

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Tennyson Guyer

Walter E. Powell
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Walter Eugene Powell was an American politician of the Republican party who served as a U. S. representative from Ohio from 1971 to 1975. Powell began his career as the city clerk of Fairfield, Ohio in 1956, in 1960, Powell successfully ran for the Ohio House of Representatives. He was reelected in 1962, and 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prov

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Walter E. Powell

Paul Gillmor
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Paul Eugene Gillmor was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U. S. Representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007, Gillmor was born in Tiffin, Ohio and grew up in Old Fort, his father owned a trucking business in the area. His mother was Lucy Fry Gillmor and he attended Old F

John W. Bowen
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John Wesley Edward Bowen III was a Republican politician who, in 1966 became the first African American elected to the Ohio Senate from Franklin County. John W. E. Bowen III was born on October 4,1926 in Jackson, Mississippi, Bowen, Jr. and Margaret Davis Bowen. He is the grandson of John W. E. Bowen, Sr. former President of Gammon Theological Semi

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Campaign Literature from 1966 - Back

Robert Shaw (Ohio)
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Robert Ross Shaw, Jr. was a prominent lawyer in Columbus, Ohio, and a member of the Ohio Senate from 1967 to 1972. He served the 16th Senate District, which encompasses most of the portion of Franklin County. Senator Shaw was born on December 5,1904, the first son of Robert Ross Shaw, Sr. and he graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz Colle

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Robert Ross Shaw, Jr.

Tom V. Moorehead
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Tom Van Horn Moorehead was a Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Moorehead was born in Zanesville, Ohio and he attended the public schools, Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and George Washington University at Washington, D. C. During the First World War, he served in United States Naval Aviation Corps and h

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In the Blue Room of the White House, May 25, 1961, with President John F. Kennedy

Ralph Regula
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Ralph Straus Regula was the United States Representative for Ohios 16th congressional district from 1973 to 2009. He retired in January 2009 after 18 consecutive terms and he is a member of the Republican Party. In the 110th Congress, he was the second longest serving Republican member of the House of Representatives, Regula was ranking minority me

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Ralph Regula

Charles J. Carney
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Charles Joseph Carney was a U. S. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Carney attended schools in Youngstown and neighboring Campbell and he later attended Youngstown State University. Carney was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1950 to 1970, prior to his involvement in public service, Carney was involved with Youngstown-area labor organizations. He served as

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Charles J. Carney

Corwin M. Nixon
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Corwin M. Nixon was an American politician. Born one mile south of Red Lion, Ohio, Nixon was best known as an Ohio politician from Lebanon, Ohio. He served as Warren County Commissioner from 1950–1962, and was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1962. Nixon rose to Minority Leader of the Republican Party in the Ohio House, much of Corwi